Sackers

Sackers has called on the government to rethink plans to equalise scheme benefits, arguing the legislative changes could push schemes into the Pension Protection Fund.

A third of workers plan to opt-out of their workplace pensions after being automatically enrolled under the government's pension reforms, a poll reveals.

Asset managers, lobby groups, consultants and law firms have reacted warily to the publication of EIOPA advice on Solvency II standards for pension schemes. Here's what they had to say

The Pensions Ombudsman has ruled trustees of the Michelin Pensions Trust twice made improper decisions regarding who received a member's death benefit lump sum.

Sackers has promoted Caroline Legg from associate director to partner.

The groups that failed in a judicial review of the government's indexation switch intend to appeal the decision - a move which will lead to further uncertainty for schemes.

The government will save more than £2.5bn through a clampdown on "complex asset- backed funding structures" that allow firms to over-claim tax relief, says George Osborne.

The Pensions Bill 2010/11 has today received royal asset becoming the Pensions Act 2011.

Sackers has hired two new solicitors to its expanding team of pensions lawyers.

Large bank pension schemes could lose out financially on insolvency if proposals set out in the Vickers Report become legislation, a law firm warns.